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                                            It is critical to a project’s success to understand and track its progress. Proper project planning and management depend on the ability to assess the current state of the project. Additionally, organizational, technical, and project risks may need to be tracked. Projects can be driven by date or functionality. When a project is date driven, project deadlines are often determined by markets, events, competitors, regulations, financial implications, or other business reasons. Even projects driven by functionality may have a desired release date. If a project is not date-driven, understanding the estimated date of release helps put the sales, deployment, marketing, training, and operations elements in place.</p>
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                                        <li class="bodyitem"><b>At least one iteration is complete.</b><br/>
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                                            <tr><td width="36"><p class="step2">1</p></td><td width="20%"><p class="p1a">Evaluate the Backlog</p></td><td><ul class="tableitem_unit"><li class="tableitem">If the project has a proposed release date, use the initial iteration length to determine the number of iterations remaining.  Use the velocity report to obtain the number of ideal person days completed per iteration. Multiply the two to determine how many ideal person days are remaining.</li><li class="tableitem">If the schedule does not allow enough time to implement all functionality needed to achieve minimum acceptance level, look at options for scaling back functionality, increasing resources, or maximizing productivity. Understanding schedule shortfalls early in the project increases mitigation options. Assign risk work items if necessary.</li><li class="tableitem">If productivity measures are taken to increase the velocity, consider whether productivity is really increased or if quality is suffering. Use the Actual Quality versus Planned Velocity report to see if quality degrades with the increase in workload.</li></ul><div style="margin: -4px 0px 6px"><img height="1" src="images/rule1.gif" width="100%"/></div></td></tr>
<tr><td width="36"><p class="step2">2</p></td><td width="20%"><p class="p1a">Check Dependencies</p></td><td><ul class="tableitem_unit"><li class="tableitem">Check for project schedule dependencies and make sure they are tracking as planned.</li><li class="tableitem">Create a new risk work item for dependencies that might be coming in late.</li><li class="tableitem">Assign the risk depending on how a slip might be mitigated.</li></ul><div style="margin: -4px 0px 6px"><img height="1" src="images/rule1.gif" width="100%"/></div></td></tr>
<tr><td width="36"><p class="step2">3</p></td><td width="20%"><p class="p1a">Create Feasibility Analysis</p></td><td><ul class="tableitem_unit"><li class="tableitem"><b>Optional</b></li><li class="tableitem">If necessary, estimate the number of remaining iterations required to complete the desire functionality to determine whether the project is on track to meet the objectives set out by the <a onclick="javascript:doLink('visionstatement');" href="visionstatement.htm">vision statement</a>.</li></ul><div style="margin: -4px 0px 6px"><img height="1" src="images/rule1.gif" width="100%"/></div></td></tr>

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